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Pompeii's Ashes : The Reception of the Cities Buried by Vesuvius in Literature, Music, and Drama - Eric M. Moormann

Pompeii's Ashes

The Reception of the Cities Buried by Vesuvius in Literature, Music, and Drama

By: Eric M. Moormann

Hardcover | 13 March 2015

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Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination.  Pompeii's Ashes surveys a broad variety of such works, ranging from travelogues between ca. 1740 and 2010 to 250 years of fiction, including stage works, music, and films. The first two chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the excavation history and an overview of the reflections of travelers. The six remaining chapters discuss several clearly-defined genres: historical novels with pagan tendencies, and those with Christians and Jews as protagonists, contemporary adventures, time traveling, mock manuscripts, and works dedicated to Vesuvius. "Pompeii's Ashes" demonstrates how the eternal fascination with the oldest still-running archaeological projects in the world began, developed, and continue until now.

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"Der Verfasser der vorliegenden Studie, der Arch¤ologie-Professor Eric Moorman, hat es sich nun zur Aufgabe gemacht, in einem au?erordentlich materialreichen Buch das gesamte Spektrum der literarischen, k¼nstlerischen und dramatischen Rezeption der antiken Stadt aufzuf¤chern. [...] der Verfasser [stellt] in Form eines Kompendiums so viele k¼nstlerische Rezeptionen der durch den Ausbruch des Vesuvs begrabenen St¤dte dar, da? man als interessierter Leser den Band ¼ber die Jahre immer wieder zur Hand nehmen wird. [...] Eine materialreiche Studie, die sicher f¼r manch einen Arch¤ologen ebenso spannend und aufschlu?reich ist wie f¼r Literaturwissenschaftler aller Art sowie Liebhaber historischer Romane (und anderer Literatur), die speziell Pompeji auch und gerade im Medium der Fiktion kennenlernen wollen."Till Kinzel in: Informationsmittel (IFB) : digitales Rezensionsorgan f¼r Bibliothek und Wissenschaft [#4334] http://informationsmittel-fuer-bibliotheken.de/showfile.php?id=9109

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